Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.