All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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