As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

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.