Leader Quotes

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Men freely believe that which they desire.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
The die is cast.
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.
The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.
The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
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