"Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient."

"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God."

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."

"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny."

"Gluttony is not a secret vice."

"Unless you are ambitious, you do not make progress."

"Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities."

"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."

"All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism."