Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.