If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

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.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Stability is not immobility

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.