Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.