Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.