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

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

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