War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
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.