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.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

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

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

The first duty of love is to listen.