“It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.”

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

Great contests generally excite great animosities.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Woe to the conquered.

From abundance springs safety.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.

Adversity makes men remember God.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

God is working in the trouble. He’s working in that situation that’s difficult.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That’s always going to have difficulties.