Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.