The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

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.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.