Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Fame is the inheritance, not of the dead but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth or an impotence of will.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

You know more of a road by having traveled it, than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

If I'm a star then the people made me a star.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman however wrong he might be.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

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