It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

The freedom of poetic license.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.