Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.