The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
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.
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Love truth, but pardon error.
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.