The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
Patience is the art of hoping.
In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.