To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.