One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution, one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The eye altering alters all

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

There are fathers who do not love their children, there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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