My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.