Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.