The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

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.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.