Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved