Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.