The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

To a valet no man is a hero

The little man is still a man.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities