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The historian Shelby Foote observed that “power doesn’t so much corrupt; that’s too simple. It fragments, closes options, mesmerizes.” That’s what ego does. It clouds the mind precisely when it needs to be clear. Sobriety is a counterbalance, a hangover cure—or better, a prevention method.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
But we lie to ourselves for assurance. And it is not they who are to blame for everything - we ourselves, only we.
Live Not by Lies
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Those who finish a revolution are rarely those who start it.
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
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