For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.

By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.