The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
Rumor is not always wrong
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.