Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.