Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
One might as well try to charge through a wall.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.