Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.