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.
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.