Quotes

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

The longer I know the joys of this world, the less I value them.

To understand the world, one must sometimes turn away from it.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

The greatest immorality is stupidity.

Imagined dangers are the deepest, and imagined enemies are the most bloodthirsty.

Great wisdom lies at the bottom of a dark abyss; and only the maddest men have spoken the deepest words.

Freedom is madness; and only madmen are free.

Shut your eyes and see.

The longest way round is the shortest way home.

The whole country was crammed with moral lessons, and there was no morality.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.