Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high. - Denis Diderot

أدركتُ أن قول الحقيقة وحدها لا يكفي ، بل ينبغي أيضاً أن يكون طريفا

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

I give my mind the liberty to follow the first wise or foolish idea that presents itself, just as in the avenue de Foy our dissolute youths follow close on the heels of some strumpet, then leave her to pursue another, attacking all of them and attaching themselves to none. My thoughts are my strumpets.