Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation, it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary it is dear to us it gives us pleasure and we must conceal it.

We live in a world of things and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

The bad end unhappily the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

We idolized the Beatles except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

Liberalism above all means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears his inadequacies from prejudice from discrimination from poverty.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

If you can't answer a man's arguments all is not lost, you can still call him vile names.

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