It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

What can we say with certainty?

I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.