Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.