Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to