Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

We pardon as long as we love.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.