Luck never mad a mad man wise

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

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.

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.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.