Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

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.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.