The sole advantage

The sole advantage
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
  

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A miserand a liar bargain quickly.
Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
Neversay more than is necessary.
One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.
Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.
It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.
Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.