Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Every advantage has its tax

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.