Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

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.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Opportunists take now for an answer.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.