If you command wisely you’ll be obeyed cheerfully. — Thomas Fuller

Virtue is despised if it be seen in a threadbare cloak. He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him. Reputation is commonly measured by the acre. A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

It is better to fall from above the clouds than from the third floor. Machado de Assis To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. Abraham Lincoln All great ideas are dangerous. Oscar Wilde It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. Benjamin Franklin