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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies
The highest power may be lost by misrule
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power
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