Freedom exists only with power.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.