Thus the best suited to rule are least likely to want to, and perhaps those less suited to rule will be more inclined to desire power due to their own shortcomings (of both kinds). Many enter public office with the aim of acquiring goods that they lack (specifically because they have not seen the good, but also in reference to material wealth). Anyone who has seen the good (been outside the cave) would have no interest in ruling the prisoners inside the cave (who live pitiful lives). The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. With great power there must also come great responsibility! To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't. Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would! Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.