What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Does anyone really know where they're going to?

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre