Anyone entrusted with power ...

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
 Jean de La Fontaine

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Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
 T. Harv Eker
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Quotes from the same author

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
 Jean de La Fontaine
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
 Jean de La Fontaine
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
 Jean de La Fontaine
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
 Jean de La Fontaine
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
 Jean de La Fontaine