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There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Every advantage has its tax

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

No strength within, no respect without.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.