A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
Despair is the greatest of our errors.
In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.
Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.