Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.