History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.
There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.