All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.

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.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.