It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

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

Power comes from sincere service

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

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

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.