If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

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

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

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.

Ittakes time to save time.