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01Undated

Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

Felix O. Hartmann / quote

02Undated

Life is like riding a ship into the storm. For every wave you take up, you have to drop just as deep.

Felix O. Hartmann / quote

03Undated

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.

Felix O. Hartmann / quote

04Undated

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

Felix O. Hartmann / quote

05Undated

Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.

Felix O. Hartmann / quote

06Undated

Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.

Felix O. Hartmann / quote

07Undated

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

Felix O. Hartmann / quote

08Undated

Darkness reveals truths that no sun can bring to light, for inside the heart of man resides a beast, only tamed by the shackles of the day.

Felix O. Hartmann / quote

09Undated

For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.

Felix O. Hartmann / quote

10Undated

Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.

Felix O. Hartmann / quote