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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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

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Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.

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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

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Lack is more in means, than in principles.

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Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

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

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

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Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

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I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

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Power is the first good.

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Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

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