An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

No law is quite appropriate for all.

That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est