Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.

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

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.