To rule yourself is the ultimate power
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
What is true belongs to me!
A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.