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

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.