“He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.”

Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.

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.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.

The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.

See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!

Just one smile Immensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

Just let the chaos in you be beautiful. You are such a soft and wild thing.