What can we say with certainty?

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

History is fables agreed upon.