“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

#8756, Part 88
Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979)

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 11 “Flood” (p. 214).

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2010s, 2017

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 32 (p. 121)

Erik (p. 129)
Phantom (1990)

Studies in Greek and Roman History, Alexander the Great and the Loneliness of Power, 1964 p. 204
Context: After fighting, scheming and murdering in pursuit of the secure tenure of absolute power, he found himself at last on a lonely pinnacle over an abyss, with no use for his power and security unattainable. His genius was such that he ended an epoch and began another - but one of unceasing war and misery, from which exhaustion produced an approach to order after two generations and peace at last under the Roman Empire. He himself never found peace. One is tempted to see him, in medieval terms, as the man who sold his soul to the Devil for power: the Devil kept his part of the bargain but ultimately claimed his own. But to the historian, prosaically such allegory, we must put it differently: to him, when he has done all the work - work that must be done, and done carefully - of analysing the play of faction and the system of government, Alexander illustrates with startling clarity the ultimate loneliness of supreme power.

War and Change in World Politics (1981)

Source: Images of Organization (1986), p. 158

Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5