Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.