Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.