If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
Lying, like license, has its degrees.