If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.
History should be written as philosophy.
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.