wisdom-quotes

To extraordinary circumstances we must apply extraordinary remedies.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Imagination rules the world.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

A true man hates no one.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both influencing injury, and remedying it.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

You know Harry, in a way you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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