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• Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
• It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even…
• The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its…
• It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
• Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the…
• And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate…
• Knowledge without understanding is useless.
• I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

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