Far better to

Far better to
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
  

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Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.
You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.
To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.
Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.
They know enough who know how to learn.
Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.