Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.