Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
From Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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