Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.