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Great men are never cruel without necessity.

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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

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Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

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Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.

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In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

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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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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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Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

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Lack is more in means, than in principles.

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Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

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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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Excessive fear is always powerless.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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