Far better to think

Far better to think
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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Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.
It'sgood to shut up sometimes.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.
Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.
Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.