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“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
On the Psychology of the Unconsciousness • Carl Gustav Jung“In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination...”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“When conquest is achieved, the authority of the conqueror put an end to internal strife, and the social life-conception was justified. But this justification is only temporary. Internal feuds cease only when the pressure of authority is brought to bear with greater weight upon individuals formerly inimical to one another. The violence of the internal struggle, not annihilated by authority, is the offspring of authority itself. Authority is in the hands of men who, like all the rest, are ever ready to sacrifice the common weal if their own personal interests are at stake; with the sole difference that these men, encountering no resistance from the oppressed, are wholly subject to the corrupting influence of authority itself.”
The Kingdom of God is Within You • Leo Tolstoy“Examine each individual, and consider the whole world, and you will find that there is no man's life that is not aiming at tomorrow.”
Day's Collacon • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“ "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius