Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.