“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

Learn to obey before you command.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

No fool can be silent at a feast.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

Angels are winged with God’s power.

Justice, even if slow, is sure.

As I grow older, I constantly learn more.

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

The only thing I command is respect.

This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn’t send me enough of them.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to ‘Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,’ then your body says, ‘Who me?’

As my great friend Aristotle said, ‘If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.’ I’m not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.