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Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are our choices.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

La ponctuality is the politeness of kings.

Louis XVIII

Praemonitus, praemunitus.

Popular culture

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Dalberg-Acton

The State is me.

Louis XIV

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Benjamin Franklin

So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.

Saint Paul

All the kings of the earth will bow down before him, and all nations will serve him.

Solomon