Glory is a poison

Glory is a poison
Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.
  

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Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.
Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.
Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.