If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

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.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.