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.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.