I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.
It matters if you just don't give up.
If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
“To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.”
“In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.”
“He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.”
“It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.”
“Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.”
“No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.”
“If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.”
“Hence in the wise leader’s plans, considerations of advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together.”
Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.
A skilled commander seeks victory from the situation and does not demand it of his subordinates.
“If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?”
“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.”