Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.