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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The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave
Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.
Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous
Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.
The World is but, a school of inquiry.
Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.