Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.