The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.