Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
One often has need of one inferior to himself.
We heed no instincts but our own.
Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.