Complacency is easy when it is not ourselves being injured — It makes a difference whose ox is gored.

Complacency is the death of excellence

Complacency is the enemy of progress.

Complacency is the death of success. Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested on.

Complexity must be compensated with simplicity.

Complexity is the mother of reinvention

Complexity is that out of which simplicities emerge.

Complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

Conflict is not possible without communication.

Conflict is avoided most on account of mutual respect.

Conflict is inevitable but not necessarily bad.

Conflict is the force that drives a theatrical writer.

Corruption is strong friendship at the highest level.

Corruption is not the result of power, rather power attracts the corruptible.

Corruption is a quality of men who possess a refined cruelty - witty and slanderous. Such men know types of murder that require neither daggers nor assault.

Corruption is the warlike passions transmuted into countless private passions. as such, it is precisely in times of corruption and 'exhaustion (i.e. times when tragedy runs through houses and streets) that great love and great hatred are born and that the flame of knowledge flares up into the sky.