One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.