To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Nothing but courage can guide life.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

There are men who are happy without knowing it.

Prosperity makes few friends.

We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

Action makes more fortunes than caution.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

There are men who are happy without knowing it.

Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

Patience is the art of hoping.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.

Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.

Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.

Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.

Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.

Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.

Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.

Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.

Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement it is a sign that it should be rejected.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Great thoughts come from the heart.

If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.

Vice stirs up war virtue fights.