Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the emperor of Rome.
They are majestic because they think.
But I did not get to where I am by thinking small.
It's lonely to be more powerful than any man you know and have to live like a shadow.
The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking.
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