Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.
Equality. . . like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Nothin'," Alex says. "We'll talk later, chica. It's not a big deal. " "Don't chica me, Alex," his bride snaps. "I think she's gonna deck him," Ben murmurs, amused.