House Quote by Harry S. Truman

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there…

— Peter Altenberg

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

— Tacitus

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

— Herodotus

There are two things that corrupt a man: money and women. Working to avoid it is great wisdom.

— Vikrant Parsai

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

— Hermann Hesse

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

— Aristotle

“What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct…

— Hannah Arendt

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power

— John Adams

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

— Alan Paton

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money…

— Herbert Croly

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

— Myriam Miedzian