While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo Da Vinci
There is no other way of guarding against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect
Niccolo Machiavelli
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent
Plato
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
Aristotle
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Publius Terentius Afer
He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.