To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

There are men who are happy without knowing it.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.