It is a lesson

It is a lesson
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
  

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.
Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.
You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.
Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.
When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.