To love is the half of to believe.
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.