The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.