An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes...
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of...
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
The less men think the more they talk.
False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never...
To become truly great one has to stand with people not above them.
An author is a fool who not content with boring those he lives with insists...
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors...
There is no nation so powerful as the one that obeys its laws not from...
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
We should weep for men at their birth not at their death.
Men should be bewailed at their birth and not at their death.
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of...
Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really really do.