He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

I would not like a king who could obey.

Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives

Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.

Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.