Beware of the words “internal security,” for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.
She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Let us confess it: evil strides the world.
I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people’s property.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.
I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person.
He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.
For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.