All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.

Give help rather than advice.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.