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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?