…we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Treachery though at first very cautious in the end betrays itself.
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
This above all makes history useful and desirable it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.