We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.