Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Paradise is where I am
To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.
Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.