To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
I would not like a king who could obey.
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
I am master of myself, as of the Universe I am, and I wish to be so.
Do your duty, and let the gods do the rest.
He who forgives readily only invites offense.
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
Peace is produced by war.
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
Ambition aspires to descend.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories