Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.