Public Republic

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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato (424 – 347 BC)

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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu (600 – 531 BC)

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821)

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There is no knowledge that is not power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)

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If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius Caesar (100 – 44 BC)

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

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In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.
Leo Tolstoy (1828 –1910)

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