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.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

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

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

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.