History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause.
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of...
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.
He who thinks himself wise O heavens! is a great fool.
Work banishes those three great evils boredom vice and poverty.
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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