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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You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.
Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.
Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.
Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.
Failingto plan is planning to fail.
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
No strength within, no respect without.
Drown not thyself to save a drowning man
A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.