Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
War is sweet to those who never tried it.
O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
The present will not long endure.