Writing is the painting of the voice.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Paradise is where I am

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.