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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough read more
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we read more
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes read more
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]