Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

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.