But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.