Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.
The way to be a bore is to say everything.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.