To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Well done is better than well said.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

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.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.