Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.