Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves