Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

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

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.