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Quote by Francis Bacon
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely inte

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. – Francis Bacon

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. – Rene Descartes

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Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. – Cornelius Nepos

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