Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

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

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

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.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.