The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.