There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.