Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
It matters more how one gives than what one gives
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.
To myself alone do I owe my fame.
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.