“By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.”

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.

Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.

For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.