If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.