Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death
death despair great
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
truth
Habit is stronger than nature.
nature
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
necessity man
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
man
Fear makes men believe the worst.
men
Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.
rules
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
fortune
That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits is eternal.
benefits
posterity
Haste is slow.
haste
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