It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.