Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."