It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.