Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.