Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
War,--the trade of barbarians!
Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.