Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
Few maxims are true in every respect.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
Habit is everything, even in love.
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.