We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.