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.
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.
Prosperity makes few friends.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.