Every generation

Every generation
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
  

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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.
The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares
If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.
Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.
A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.