The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
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.