On dit quelquefois: 'Le sens commun est fort rare.'

Ne ressemblons-nous pas presque tous a ce vieux general de quatre-vingt-dix ans, qui, ayant rencontre de jeunes officiers qui faisaient un peu de desordre avec…

Sa reputation s'affermira toujours, parce qu'on ne le lit guere.

Tel homme qui dans un exces de melancolie se tue aujourd'hui aimerait a vivre s'il attendait huit jours.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a t…

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close…