What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.