It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.