Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.