Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
Conspicuous by his absence.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes