Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.