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Distance is a great promoter of admiration. - [Admiration] Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. - [Genius] Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. - [Gratitude] He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature. - [Gentlemen] His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. - [Kings] I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it. - [Truth] If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. - [Deceit] Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues. - [Integrity] Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. - [Justice] Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. - [Monarchy : Religion] Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. - [Language] Posterity is for the Philosopher what the other world is for the religious. - [Posterity] Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. - [Skepticism] The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find. - [Physicians] Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race. - [Authorship] To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.] - [Liberty] We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. - [Vice] We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. - [Flattery] Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter. - [Flattery] The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. - Last Conversation [Philosophy] The Marquis de Croismare's reply, if he does reply, will serve as the opening lines of this tale. Before writing to him I wanted to know what he was like. He is a man of the world, he has had a distinguished military career, is elderly, a widower with a daughter and two sons whom he loves and who return his affection. He is well born, enlightened, intelligent and witty, is fond of the arts and above all has an original mind. - Memoirs of a Nun, (Leonard Tancock translation) [Books (First Lines)]
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