I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.