If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

A language is like living skin itself.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.