It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

As was his language so was his life.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling