“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth”
“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth”
“Every man over forty is a scoundrel”
“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything”
“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions”
“A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp”
“Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong”
“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander”