Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.
Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.
In life, the worst disasters come from passion.