Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

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

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.