Poems List
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Who has not the spirit of his age, Of his age has all the unhappiness. 12
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Whoever you are, behold your master, He is, or was, or has to be. 13
Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
You are the slaves of laws. The French are slaves of men.
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts.
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