The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.