He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
All great peoples are conservative.
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
The devil has his elect.