A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

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

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.