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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious
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
The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason
Constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go
Power ought to serve as a check to power
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good
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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."
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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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