People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

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.

Ittakes time to save time.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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