As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.