For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

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

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.