You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.