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"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
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"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."
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"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."

"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
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