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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

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.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.