Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
Rome alone can resist Rome.
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
The worst of all States is the democratic State.