The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

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.