Power doesn't corrupt

Power doesn't corrupt
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
  

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Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.
Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.
Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.
Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.
The property of power is to protect.
Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.
He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.
Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?