If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

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.