Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.