The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.