For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

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Music fathoms the sky.