Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.