Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by striking true.

Author: Honore de Balzac

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The more one judges the less one loves.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night, or the last to awake in the morning.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.