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It is not possible to find morality in struggles for power.
Your enemies view you as you do them and likely regard themselves as virtuous in their attempts at mayhem upon you....
It is not possible to found lasting power or treachery, purjery and dishonesty.
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man- the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse- the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Have the courage to...
It is not power itself, but the legitimization of the lust for power which corrupts absolutely.
it is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself.
If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferenc...
It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.
-- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Courage, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap. xxix...
It is not resultful to transform one part of speech into another by prefixing, suffixing, or other alterings.
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes....
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau...
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the a...

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