But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.
Love truth, but pardon error.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.