Our distrust is very expensive.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

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

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Those who trust us educate us.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.