Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

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

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.