Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

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.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

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.

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.