To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
~ Vauvenargues
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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.
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.
Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
All men are born truthful and die liars.
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
