To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.