It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.