We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.