Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.