All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

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.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.