The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.