"I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor."
-Pierre Corneille
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"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.“
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"Each instant of life is a step toward death."
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"To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death."
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"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
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"Happiness seems made to be shared."
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"Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!"
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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