Alcibiades

"The truth is often a burden too heavy for the ordinary man to bear."

"I have learned that the greatest victories are often won without battle."

"The man who depends entirely on others' approval has already surrendered his power."

"To create something great, one must be willing to destroy what came before."

"I believe that history judges not by virtue, but by consequence."

"The pursuit of knowledge without ambition is merely intellectual wandering."

"I have found that those who speak of virtue most loudly are often the first to abandon it."

"The heart that refuses to be broken is often the one that never learned to love."

"I would rather live one day as a man of vision than a lifetime of comfortable blindness."

"The strength to change oneself is far greater than the strength to change others."

"I have observed that the most successful men are those who made their own rules."

"The voice that speaks for the people often speaks against them."

"I believe that every obstacle is merely an opportunity in disguise."

"The beauty of youth is that it knows not the limitations the old have accepted."

"I have learned that true friendship requires the willingness to be vulnerable."

"The pursuit of happiness is best abandoned in favor of the pursuit of meaning."

"I would rather die striving for the impossible than live accepting the mediocre."

"The mind that seeks knowledge without seeking wisdom will find only confusion."

"I have found that the greatest teachers are often those we oppose most fiercely."

"The strength of a leader lies not in never falling, but in rising each time."

"I believe that every man is the architect of his own fortune or misfortune."

"The pursuit of justice without mercy is merely the perpetuation of violence."

"I have discovered that fear is merely the absence of understanding and preparation."

"The world respects not the humble, but those who refuse to be humbled."

"I would rather be the most hated man of genius than the most loved fool."

"The art of persuasion is knowing when to appeal to reason and when to appeal to passion."

"I have learned that the future belongs to those who can imagine what others cannot."

"The measure of courage is not the absence of fear, but action in its presence."

"I believe that every man must choose between comfort and greatness."

"The pursuit of power without virtue is merely the road to self-destruction."