There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.