To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Happy the man who can endure the highest And the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things.
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