In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.