A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

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.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination