Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

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.

It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

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

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.