The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

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.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.