In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

What can I hope when all is right?

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.