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The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

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If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

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more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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