To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

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.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.