The Great Always Sell Their Society To

Education Must Have Two Foundations --morality As A Support For Virtue, Prudence As A Defense For Self Against The Vices Of Others. By Letting The Balance Incline To The Side Of Morality, You Only Make Dupes Or Martyrs; By Letting It Incline To The Other, You Make Calculating Egoists.

In Love, Everything Is True, Everything Is False; It Is The One Subject On Which One Cannot Express An Absurdity.

At The Sight Of What Goes On In The World, The Most Misanthropic Of Men Must End By Being Amused, And Heraclitus Must Die Laughing.

Vain Is Equivalent To Empty; Thus Vanity Is So Miserable A Thing, That One Cannot Give It A Worse Name Than Its Own. It Proclaims Itself For What It Is.

It Is When Their Age Of Passions Is Past That Great Men Produce Their Masterpieces, Just As It Is After Volcanic Eruptions That The Soil Is Most Fertile.