Religion is the highest vanity.
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.
What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.
Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.
If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.
There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.