They make solitude, which they call peace.
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.