The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.