Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.
Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.