Quotes

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish by others.

Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes, but most of all death.

If what you do is right, why are you afraid of those who will find fault wrongly?

If toil is set before you, you will find endurance.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Whoever has ever built a new heaven found the strength for it only in his own hell.

As long as there is darkness, there will be dawn!

But for the hero of Topola, Karađorđe the immortal, every obstacle stood in the way, yet he reached the great goal: he raised the people, baptised the land and broke the barbarian chains, called the Serbs back from the dead and breathed life into the Serbian soul.

But to set one’s foot on the neck of tyranny and bring it to know what is right, that is man’s most sacred duty!