Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.