What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Leaders deal in hope.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

The only victory over love is flight.