A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Our distrust is very expensive.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.