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Leadership, besides being a great creative force, can be diabolical...

Jan Smuts

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He is up   There like a Roman statue! He will stand   Till Death hath made him marble!

Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois (The Assignation by Edgar Allan Poe)

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Auribus Teneo Lupum

I hold the wolf by the ears.

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Young men of the richer classes, who have not much to do, come about me of their own accord: they like to heart the pretenders examined, and they often imitate me, and examine others themselves; there are plenty of person, as they soon discover, who think that they know something, but really know little or nothing; and then those who are examined by them instead of being angry with themselves are angry with me: This confounded Socrates, they say; this villainous misleader of youth!  And then if somebody asks them, Why, what evil does he practice or teach?   They do not know, and cannot tell; but in order that they may not appear to be at a loss, they repeat the ready-made charges which are used against all philosophers about teaching things up in the clouds and under the earth, and having no gods, and making the worse appear the better cause; for they do not like to confess that their pretense of knowledge has been detected — which is the truth; and as they are numerous and ambitious and energetic, and are all in battle array and have persuasive tongues, they have filled your ears with their loud and inveterate calumnies.

Socrates, the trial and death of Socrates