773  Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

755  All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

771  Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

846  Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

752  Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.