And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.