Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

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.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.