Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

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.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.