A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Even the strongest man needs friends.
there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.