“À exceção de nossos pensamentos não há nada de tão absoluto em nosso poder.”
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
René Descartes 75
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“O poder corrompe. O poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente.”

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely in such manner that great men are almost always bad men."
Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1887 http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1407&Itemid=283. In Figgis, J. N. e Laurence, R. V. Historical Essays and Studies, London: Macmillan, 1907.

“Neste mundo nada pode ser dado como certo, à exceção da morte e dos impostos.”
in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!
The private correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D, F.R.S., &c. ... - Volume 1, Página 266 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=jY8EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA266, Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin - Printed for Henry Colburn, 1817