An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.
A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.