Far better to

Far better to
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
  

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Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.
Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.
Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.
It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.
The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.
The greatest prayer is patience.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.
Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.