Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

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.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant