“It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.”

I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.

And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.

Let No One Fall Idle.

In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.

Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.

It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.

Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.

Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.

When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.

And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.

Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.