The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. (Hermann Hesse)

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Hermann Hesse

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