A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
No man was ever wise by chance.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
In war when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he...
I know I got to eat. But I got to live too.
The best and most beautiful things in the world...
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but...