Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
This life is only a prelude to eternity.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.