It is only through timidity that states are lost.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)
There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.
Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.