The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.

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

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.