The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.