Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

People accustomed to great victories, know not how to support a day of reverse.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Il y a dans le coeur humain une generation perpetuelle de passions, en sorte que la ruine de l'une est presque toujours l'etablissement d'une autre.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.