"Everything is generated through your own will power."
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"I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power"
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"There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!"
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"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention."
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"Purity is the power to contemplate defilement."
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"Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him."
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"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."
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"The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince."
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"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."
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"Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness."
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"Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain."
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"It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies."
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"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."
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"A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it."
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"A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences."
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"A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out."
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"The heart of a statesman should be in his head."
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"Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code."
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"Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances."
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"No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world."
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