Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.