What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to m….

We chase dreams and embrace shadows..

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving..

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,….

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign..

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity..

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world..

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies..

Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant..

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it..

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets..

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges..

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free..

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it..

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice..

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear..

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever..

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be..

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

Justice is the sanction of established injustice..