In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.