There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

To philosophize is to doubt.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould