Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Example is better than following it.

A half truth is a whole lie.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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.

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

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.