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Die Hybris der Aristokratie - Warum Macht uns Menschen verdirbt und es keine Ausnahmen dazu gibt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOsbPku2gs
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power; for, whatever qualifications he may have evinced to entitle him to the possession of so dangerous a privilege, yet when possessed, others can no longer answer for him, because he can no longer answer for himself.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 522 (1820)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
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