I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis? Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?
People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.