If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.