I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.
Everyone has his besetting sin.
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.
Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.
I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me.
The loving are the daring.
Does no one think to warn people before they meet me?" Vlad muttered, shooting an irritable look at Mencheres.