I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
Love and war are the same thing and stratagems and policy are as allowable...
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret...
The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere...
I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major...