Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.