We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.