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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor’s son to marry.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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