Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
Those who fear men like laws.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.