Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.