Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel