Quotes – Taking Radical Responsibility

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

~Aristotle Onassis

Quotes – It’s Lonely At The Top

Most captains have trouble with their ship’s people from time to time – on occasion it is a continual sullen covert war – and unless they make cronies of their first lieutenants, as some do, they have to chew it over alone. I do not wonder that so many of them grow strange or bloody-minded; or run melancholy mad, for that matter.

~Capt. Jack Aubrey, Patrick O’Brian

Quotes – How A Lie Betrays Itself

Falsehood always seeks to imitate the truth.

~Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Quotes – Success As A Foregone Conclusion

The winning side is most widely applauded when the victory is evident.

~Patrick O’Brian

Quotes – From Where Revolutions Stem

Political trials are always vain formalities; for the very passions that produce the accusation also lead to the condemnation. Such is the terrible logic of revolutions.

~Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

Quotes – The Heights of Criticism

Very little achievement is required in order to pity another man’s shortcomings.

~George Eliot, Middlemarch

Quotes – Sycophancy

As long as a man is in command, be he the worst of fools, there are people around him committed to the belief that he commands well.

~Maurice Druon

Quotes – The Boldness of Stupidity

Stupidity is no bar to enterprise; on the contrary, it tends to conceal difficulties which an intelligent man would consider insuperable.

~Maurice Druon

Quotes – The Veracity of History

It is terrifying to think how much research is needed to determine the truth of even the most unimportant fact.

~Stendhal

Quotes – The Risks of a Regal Soul

It is a great misfortune to be born with the soul of a king if one is not destined to reign.

~Maurice Druon