A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.