If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.
To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
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.