The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Power comes from sincere service

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

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.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?