The exercise of power is

The exercise of power is
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.
  

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Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.
You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.
Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.
We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.
Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.
Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.