“In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.”

Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.

All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards (“marcher vers”, Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.