Each man the architect of his own fate.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.