Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.

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.