History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
We cannot wish for that we know not.
We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Use, do not abuse... Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
