An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.