Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

In valor there is hope.

Conspicuous by his absence.