Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.