The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
The torment of precautions ...
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“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.
