To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

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.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.