“It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.”

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.

Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.