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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

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The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

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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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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

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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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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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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 of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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

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