Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.
Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.