If it weren't for the Church, no one would know about the Jews.
If it is profitable to remember, no one will be forgotten.
There are three types of lies: a plain lie, a disgusting lie, and statistics.
When I want to read a book, I write it.
Colonies do not cease to be colonies even when they have gained independence.
Flattery pleases everyone.
Insignificant situations give birth to insignificant people.
Trifles influence little people.
Many are of the opinion that our descendants are beasts of burden, to carry any load.
Youth is deceptive, maturity is a struggle, old age, a regret.
It takes nerves of steel to be friendly with the same person every day.
There is no better teacher than unhappiness.
Never complain and never explain anything to anyone.
A precedent reinforces the principle.
Diversity is the mother of pleasure.
The greatest misfortune that has befallen man is the invention of printing.
Free trade is not a principle, but a means to an end.
Justice is truth in action.
The hour before sunrise is the darkest.
The majority is always inventive and clever.
Man is truly great when he is driven by passions.
I never deny, I never contradict, sometimes I forget.
Without generous ideas, humanity cannot live.
Without children, humanity could not be loved so much.
Without ideals, that is, without the desire for a concrete good, there can be no good reality.
Vanity and conceit are not a sign of a sense of one's own dignity.
Wealth and coarseness of pleasures beget laziness, which in turn begets slaves.
Ideally, the public conscience must say: let us all perish, if our salvation depends only on one tormented child, and he does not agree to save us.
The mark of true art lies in the fact that art is always contemporary and useful.
Man's cheerfulness is an important characteristic of him.