Hope Deceives More Men Than Cunning Does.

It Is Unjust To Exact That Men Shall Do Out Of Deference To Our Advice What They Have No Desire To Do For Themselves.

In Order To Do Great Things, It Is Necessary To Live As If One Was Never To Die.

We Can Console Ourselves For Not Having Great Talents As We Console Ourselves For Not Having Great Places. We Can Be Above Both In Our Hearts.

Activity Makes More Men's Fortunes Than Cautiousness.

As Soon As An Opinion Becomes Common It Is Sufficient Reason For Men To Abandon It And To Uphold The Opposite Opinion Until That In Its Turn Grows Old, And They Require To Distinguish Themselves By Other Things. Thus If They Attain Their Goal In Some Art Or Science, We Must Expect Them Soon To Cast It Aside To Acquire Some Fresh Fame, And This Is Partly The Reason Why The Most Splendid Ages Degenerate So Quickly, And, Scarcely Emerged From Barbarism, Plunge Into It Again.