Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.