Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
The fear of war is worse than war itself.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
He is most powerful who governs himself.