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

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

The secret of freedom, courage.

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.