“The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.”
“Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.”
“We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.”
“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.”
“Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.”
“Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.”
“The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.”
“All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.”
“A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.”