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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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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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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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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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COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

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Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

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It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

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There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

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There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

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The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.

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

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Excessive fear is always powerless.

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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