One of the lessons

One of the lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
Between friends there is no need of Justice.
Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall 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.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
The property of power is to protect.
No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Well done is better than well said.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.