The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.