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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

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International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

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The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

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Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

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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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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

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Greatness knows itself.

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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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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

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