The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.