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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

—Marcus Aurelius

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

—A. Bartlett Giamatti

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

—Amy Tan

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

—Baltasar Gracián

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

—Elie Wiesel

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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

—Eric Hoffer

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

—Henrik Ibsen

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

—James A. Garfield

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The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

—James Madison

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

—John Stuart Mill

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

—Joseph Farrell

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

—Lord Macaulay

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