Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames; very likely he had seen with his own eyes and smelt with his own nostrils the sulphurous fumes of Hell escaping from some fissure in the rocks. Looking upwards, he beheld ... the incorruptible firmament, wherein the stars hung like so many lamps.

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

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned