It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

We learn not in the school, but in life.