Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
Those alone are wise who know how to love.
This life is only a prelude to eternity.
That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.