Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.