Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty or more eloquent or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
War consisteth not in battle only or the act of fighting but in a tract of...
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Men always makes gods in their own image.
The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit...