It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.
A witty saying proves nothing.