Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.
The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.