Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.