Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.
To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
The world remains ever the same.
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.