When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.
That path leads ever down into stagnation.
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
Beaurocracy destroys initiative.
There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocritesโconscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, itโs all the same.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.