No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.