To Be Active Is The

Everything Transitory Is But An Image.

A Talent Can Be Cultivated In Tranquility; A Character Only In The Rushing Stream Of Life.

Legislators And Revolutionaries Who Promise Both Equality And Liberty Are Visionaries And Charlatans.

And Those Whom Once My Song Had Cheered And Gladdened, If Still They Live, Rove Through The World Now Saddened.

Napoleon Affords Us An Example Of The Danger Of Elevating One's Self To The Absolute, And Sacrificing Everything To The Carrying Out Of An Idea.