It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.