Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

History should be written as philosophy.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.