It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.