There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.