Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.