The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been...