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1800·Paris, France
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.
All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Hannah Arendt·1969Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1838The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1841Do the thing, and you shall have the power; but they who do not do the thing have not the power.
