Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.