Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

People of great faith are almost always lacking in reason, while people possessed of great reason often suffer from a pitiful lack of faith. So it always happens that people of great faith can move the world but cannot steer it, while people possessed of great reason excel at steering the world but are hopeless at moving it

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.

The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares