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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture th

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. – Laurence Sterne

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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. – Laurence Sterne

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People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. – Laurence Sterne

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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. – Wole Soyinka

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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. – Hannah Arendt

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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. – Maimonides

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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. – Baruch Spinoza

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