Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

The voice is nothing but beaten air.