Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

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

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.