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

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

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

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

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.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

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