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.

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.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.