Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.
The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.
For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.
We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today