You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

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

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

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 they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.