What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.
A child is an angel dependent on man
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.