History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.