The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.
He who leaves the game wins it.
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.