Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself |
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. |
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. |
My trade and art is to live. |
My trade and art is to live. |
Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws |
No noble thing can be done without risks |
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art |
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemnly |
No wind favors him who has no destined port. |
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. |
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. |
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. |
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known |
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. |