Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

Fight all you want, but you will never win. You can change a system only by being part of that system, by being part of the change.

In thy foul throat thou liest.

Time is a place where most of the relationships get lost. And, the ugliest part is that there are no lost and found boxes. There is no hope that you might get it back.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

When she kissed me, I had the feeling my brain was melting right through my body.

Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.