Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

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.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

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

Pain is the outcome of sin.