Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
The difference breeds hatred.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.