I have never

I have never
I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
  

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Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.
He understands badly who listens badly.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned