“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
Success“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
Death“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
Success“Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.”
Death“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
Death“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”
Power“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”
Fear“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
Success“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”
Future“There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.”
Fear“An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”
War“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
Great“Peace is a natural effect of trade.”
Peace“False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.”
Happiness“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”
Friendship“The less men think, the more they talk.”
Men“It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.”
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