Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Zum Autor"To establish oneself in the world one has to do all one can to appear established."
"Hope is the last thing that dies in man."
"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
"It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them."
"Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power."
"Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests."