It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.