Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.