Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
Those who can bear all can dare all.