Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not..

It is not customary to love what one has..

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditu….

Justice is the sanction of established injustice..

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity..

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best..

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture..

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order..

The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appe….

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins..

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants..

Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate..

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a wom….

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces..

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another..

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future..

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable t….

Custom alone regulates morals..

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris,….

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness..

People who don't count won't count..