Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
The more nature inclines us to pleasures, the more prone we are to license than to decency.
Merchants and industrialists should not be admitted to citizenship, because their way of life is abject and contrary to virtue.
Outside of society, man is either a beast or a god.
Science is to the soul what light is to the eyes, and if the roots are bitter, the fruits are very sweet.
The independence of thought is the noblest aristocracy.
The threat of the strongest always makes me stand by the weakest.
A curse has never killed a fly.
When many remedies are suggested for a single ailment, it means that it cannot be cured.
Works of art are divided into two categories: those I like and those I don't like. I don't know any other criteria.
I confess that burying some people is a great pleasure.
A hungry dog only has faith in the meat.
The common man expects the good and the bad from the outside, the thinking man expects it from himself.