Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.[Le hasard est un mot vide de sens ; rien ne peut exister sans cause.]
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Almost everything is imitation.[Presque tout est imitation.]
All men are free; you have an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but you will have many difficulties in passing the frontiers.[Tous les hommes sont libres; partez quand vous voudrez, mais la sortie est bien difficile.]
A witty saying proves nothing.[Un bon mot ne prouve rien.]
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity.[Une fausse science fait les athées ; une vraie science prosterne l’homme devant la Divinité.]
A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions.[Une compagnie de graves tyrans est inaccessible à toutes les séductions.]