Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.