One Promises Much, To Avoid Giving Little.

The Generality Of Men Are So Bound Within The Sphere Of Their Circumstances That They Have Not Even The Courage To Get Out Of Them Through Their Ideas, And If We See A Few Whom, In A Way, Speculation Over Great Things Makes Incapable Of Mean Ones, We Find Still More With Whom The Practice Of Small Things Takes Away The Feeling For Great Ones.

Servitude Degrades People To Such A Point That They Come To Like It.

It Cannot Be A Vice In Men To Be Sensible Of Their Strength.

The Favorites Of Fortune Or Of Fame Topple From Their Pedestals Before Our Eyes Without Diverting Us From Ambition.

Consciousness Of Our Strength Increases It.