Power does not

Power does not
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.
  

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Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.
Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.
Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.
Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.
Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.
Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.