The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.