Quote by Paul Valery
Power without abuse loses its charm. - Paul Valery

Power without abuse loses its charm. – Paul Valery

Other quotes by Paul Valery

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. – Paul Valery

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Attitude
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Power and speed be hands and feet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Truth is powerful and it prevails. – Sojourner Truth

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Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever. – Dee Dee Myers

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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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