If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.