Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
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.
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.