Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
It is not customary to love what one has.
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.