It is not the whip

It is not the whip
It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.
  

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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.
The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.
The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.
Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.
Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.