The best wealth is the one by which the honour of man is protected.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The best revenge is living well.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

520. Living well is the best revenge.

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

Living well is the best revenge.

Virtue is indeed its own noblest reward; yet the dead find it sweet, when the fame of their lives is remembered among the living and oblivion does not swallow up their praises.

Life is more than gold . . . and great honour is better than both.

Virtue was its own reward.

The reward for living is the living itself.

Fortune favours the brave.

Who sows virtue reaps honour.

Let me speak from my own personal experience for a moment. I was a soldier for a few years early in my life, and though I have been fortunate to win some success in other fields, I look back on the days I spent in uniform as the most rewarding of my entire career. There is no greater satisfaction, no greater opportunity, a man can have on this earth than the chance to stake the ultimate…his life…fighting for freedom and for country.