We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

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

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.