You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Necessity truns lion into fox.