But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.