Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

The property of power is to protect.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

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.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Nostrength within, no respect without.