If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

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

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

Nothing but courage can guide life.