You made your bed, now lie in it.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The comforter's head never aches.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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