Trust your heart rather than your head.
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.