Grantgraciously what you

Grantgraciously what you
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
  

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Better ask ten times than go astray once.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.
If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.
No strength within, no respect without.
Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
In God we trust; all others pay cash.