The French complain of everything, and always.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.
Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. All people love poorly.
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
There is this difference where a man works for himself, or where, when working for an employer, he takes his wages in kind, his wages depend upon the result of his labor. Should that, from any misadventure, prove futile, he gets nothing. When he works for an employer, however, he gets his wages anyhow—they depend upon the performance of the labor, not upon the result of the labor.
The French complain of everything, and always.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.
Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. All people love poorly.
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
There is this difference where a man works for himself, or where, when working for an employer, he takes his wages in kind, his wages depend upon the result of his labor. Should that, from any misadventure, prove futile, he gets nothing. When he works for an employer, however, he gets his wages anyhow—they depend upon the performance of the labor, not upon the result of the labor.