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

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.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

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

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.