I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.