"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
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"The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers."
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"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."
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"A good intention clothes itself with power."
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"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
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"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."
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"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual."
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"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
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"No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
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"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it."
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"What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
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"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven."
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"Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation."
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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

