To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
“Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never”
“Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.”
“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”
“Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most...A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places ...”
“the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they...”
“And so seplchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”
“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”
“When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.”
“Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.”
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
“What you see is highly dependent on how you look.”
“School is testing our memory and real world is testing our memory + how we use this which we know.”