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• Act so in the valley that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. -- A Danish proverb
• What fools these mortals be. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Men must either be caressed or annihilated. They will revenge themselves for small injuries, but they can't do so for great ones.
  The harm the leader does must be such that he need not fear revenge. -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca
• The spectacle of astrology in the White House -- the governing center of the world's greatest scientific and military power -- is so appalling that it defies understanding and provides grounds for great fright.
  The easiest response is to laugh it off, and to indulge in wisecracks about Civil Service ratings for horoscope makers and palm readers and whether Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev for his sign....
• What fools these mortals be. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
• I'm not conceited, I just can't stand mortals.
• A great fortune is a great slavery. -- Seneca