The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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.

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.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.