Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.