Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
I don't remember yesterday. I pretty much live in the moment.
If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.