Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.