You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. - François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand

men don't allow themselves to be killed for their interest, they allow themselves to be killed for their passion

Aristocracy has three successive stages: the age of superiority, the age of privilege, and the age of vanity. Once through with the first, it degenerates into the second, and dies out in the third.

Aussitôt qu'une pensée vraie est entrée dans notre esprit, elle jette une lumière qui nous fait voir une foule d'autres objets que nous n'apercevions pas auparavant.