Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end .
One thing above all gives charm to men’s thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say ‘truth’ and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
The best sentence? The shortest.
The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.