The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.