Though Dante had an arranged marriage with the daughter of a powerful Florentine family, he had also been unrequitedly in love with another woman since he was nine years old: Beatrice Portinari.
Honesty was deemed to be more of a sin than a virtue, since it made people feel uncomfortable or at least it made the most powerful folks feel uncomfortable.
Being president makes you the single most powerful person, man or woman, in the world but it's also a multiyear commitment that forces you to give up your personal life and any since of privacy.
One of these guys at the Berkshire meeting from one of the foreign publications said quite a couple of guys in a little place in Omaha do so much better than all these powerful minds and great institutions.
I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character - not wealth or power or position - is of supreme worth.