Emotions and Feelings

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Despair often breeds disease.

Despair often breeds disease.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.