The fear of death was a powerful aphrodisiac.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Teens say there’s nothing I can do because I have no vote. The truth is, the only vote that matters is how you spend your money and who you give it to. Each coin is giving power. Notice and be careful who you give your power to.
Strength of mind does not wholly display itself, except in attacks upon power.[Alternate translation:]Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.[La force de l’esprit ne se développe tout entière qu’en attaquant la puissance.]
Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.
Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom.
Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
