I am a count, not a saint.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.