Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.