The lust for power

The lust for power
The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.
  

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.
Laughter is shortest distance between two people.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Suspicion begets suspicion.
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.
To teach isto learn twice.