Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Renown and repose do not go together.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

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.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

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

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.