One must be something to be able to do something.
It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.
No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.