Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him