Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.