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.

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

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.

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

Those who fear men like laws.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.