The leader is always alone before bad fates.

Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political decision.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

I was solitary before, but now my solitariness becomes complete and awesome. Hence the dizziness, the vertigo. Like a statue on a plinth--that is how I live no…

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. He was bothered by the people who cheered him in neighboring villages, and he imagined t…

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.