Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
It is cowardice to commit suicide.
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.