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Few Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
- Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
- The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises…
- We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something…
- Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
- How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
- The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
- It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while…
- Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the…
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