Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.