Power tends to

Power tends to
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
  

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A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.
When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.
There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.
It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.