My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.