How much must I overcome before I triumph?
The man who pardons easily courts injury.
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.
Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.