Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

A pauper in the midst of wealth.