As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.