The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.