Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

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

Example is better than following it.

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

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

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

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.