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

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

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.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.