One ofthe lessons

One ofthe lessons
One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.
In all superstitions wise men follow fools.
Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.
Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.
Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them
We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.