Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

The property of power is to protect.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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

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 most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.