Inspirational Sayings

As a mark is not set up for the purpose of missing the aim, so neither does the nature of evil exist in the universe.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

The only way to overcome fear is to do what you fear.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

The greatest music has no sound; the greatest form has no shape.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

A good general does not fight with his troops, but with his strategy. A good king does not govern with his strength, but with his virtue.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

The only hope for the doomed is no hope at all.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

And for the following purpose am I having this inscription written: in order that my sons and grandsons may not consider making new conquests; or, if they do conquer, that they may take pleasure in mercy and light punishments; and that they may regar…