If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.