 To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. |
| He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief. |
| It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. |
| The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you. |
| To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly. |
| Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. |
| Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world. |
| Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. |
| He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. |
| But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. |
| Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright. |
| A selfish man is a thief. |
