Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.