The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unfo...
Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures but in the use made of them.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
If they want peace nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.
You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.