Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.