It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity