Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.