Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

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.