Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

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.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.