One can not be just if one is not humane.
Those who can bear all can dare all.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.