Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. |
In art as in love, instinct is enough. |
In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing |
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. |
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom |
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom |
It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong. |
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. |
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. |
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly |
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. |
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown |
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg |
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. |
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be |