“What you can’t enforce, do not command.”

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.

The authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.