As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

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.