The part of life which we really live is short.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.