And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it
There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
The world is the house of the strong.
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!
All children are essentially criminal.
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