Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.
An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.