Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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.
In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.