Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

Tears are the silent language of grief.