Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.