Marquis de Vauvenargues

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.