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.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.