Simple Truths Are A Relief From Grand

Hope Is The Only Good Thing That Disillusion Respects.

We Are Very Wrong To Think That Some Fault Or Other Can Exclude Virtue, Or To Consider The Alliance Of Good And Evil As A Monstrosity Or An Enigma.

Hope Deceives More Men Than Cunning Does.

Children Are Taught To Fear And Obey; The Avarice, Pride, Or Timidity Of Parents Teaches Children Economy, Arrogance, Or Submission. They Are Also Encouraged To Be Imitators, A Course To Which They Are Already Only Too Much Inclined. No One Thinks Of Making Them Original, Courageous, Independent.

The Usual Pretext Of Those Who Make Others Unhappy Is That They Do It For Their Own Good.