Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.
The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.
Change has no constituency.
He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.