“If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.”
— Ovid —
Related Power Quotes
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.”
— Tennyson Alfred Lord —
Picture Quote“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.”
— Colton Charles C. —
