Far better to think

Far better to think
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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Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur
Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.
Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave
I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable
A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.
Luck never mad a mad man wise
When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.
Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.