The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. |
We are rarely proud when we are alone. |
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. |
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. |
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. |
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. |
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. |
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. |
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. |
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. |
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. |
The superfluous, a very necessary thing. |
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. |
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. |
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. |
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. |
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. |
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. |
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. |
Business is the salt of life. |