To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.