Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.