Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

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

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

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