Menu
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.