This is one of the reasons I found Saving Private Ryan to be such a powerful film. Because if we have to wage war, okay, but let's look at it really for what it is. |
Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. |
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes. |
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. |
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes, are ever backward a to suspect others |
Those who have had great passions often find all their lives made miserable in being cured of them. |
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. |
Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance. |
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it |
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. |
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him. |
To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune. |
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already |
To establish ourselves in the world we do everything to appear as if we were established. |
To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established. |