The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are.
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.
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