No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.