Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.
Thinking is an experimental action carried out with small amounts of energy, in the same way as a general shifts small figures about on a map before setting his large bodies of troops in motion.
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed…
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans.
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.
On the path of actions, a great heart is the chief recommendation; on that of works, a great head.
