Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.