Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.