Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

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.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.