Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.
That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
Custom alone regulates morals.
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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, and Munich.
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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