It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Nature has always had more force than education.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by...
It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong
In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.
And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Love truth, but pardon error.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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