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The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are
To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will read more
To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]
Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.
Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes read more
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Those have most power to hurt us, that we love
Those have most power to hurt us, that we love
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
