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- There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
- C. C. Colton
- Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
- James Goldsmith
- The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- Pittacus
- Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
- C. C. Colton
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
- Author Unknown
- The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
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