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.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain