Power will intoxicate

Power will intoxicate
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.
  

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Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.
To beprepared is half the victory.
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.
One cannot be precise and still be pure.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.
No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.
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Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.
If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.