They wanted me to be a Washington.
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Unavailable wars are always just.
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.