History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.
Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.
Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.