Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.