It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

You can't unscramble an egg.

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.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

The present is never a happy state to any being

As a final incentive before giving up a

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.