A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.