Far better to

Far better to
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
  

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You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.
The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.
Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.
There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.
Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.
Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.
The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.