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.

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.