If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.