It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
Every country has the government it deserves.
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.