In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.
Every country has the government it deserves.
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the spring is transformed into a dance, force becomes dynamic, and outlines figures.
Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.
Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a question he considers very problematic after giving it careful thought, distrust those quick answers that come to the mind of someone who has considered it only briefly or not at all. These answers are usually simplistic views lacking in consistency, which explain nothing, or which do not bear examination.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.
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