Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.