The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Your mind may not know what to do today, but your heart does. Follow your heart.

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.

I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.