Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.