We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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

Only the educated are free.

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.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.