Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.

Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.