The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

You must be grounded to take flight.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

Absent in body but present in spirit.

What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

He gives before he is asked.