The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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

I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

The best way to be boring is to include everything.