Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A good conscience is the best divinity.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

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.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.