After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.