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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.
 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is 
no power but of God: the powers read more 
 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is 
no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. 
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.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
 Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
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 Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
 [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
  Posse volunt.] 
The law has no power over heroes.
The law has no power over heroes.
 Without his rod revers'd,
 And backward mutters of dissevering power.  
 Without his rod revers'd,
 And backward mutters of dissevering power. 
 There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is 
praised as equal to the gods.
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 There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is 
praised as equal to the gods.
 [Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
  Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.] 
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.