The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.