Successful villany is called virtue.
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Resistance to oppression is second nature.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.