To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.