Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

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

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.