Nature has always had more force than education.
It is only through timidity that states are lost.
Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.