No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.