The highest proof

The highest proof
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.
  

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Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.
A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.
Old fools are more foolish than you ones.
I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.