Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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