Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

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