I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

In every man there is something of all men.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.