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Calmness is the cradle of power.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; read more
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right read more
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation\'s braggart lords.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation\'s braggart lords.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough read more
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
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O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
