"Each man is capable of doing one..." - Quote by Plato

“He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act”

“No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.”

“Do not expect justice where might is right.”

“Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.”

“One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.”

“Observe what is with undivided awareness.”

“The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!”

“Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.”

“Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.”