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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
No Country for Old Men
All government is an ugly necessity
Men still have to be governed by deception
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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