O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.

When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.

Women love only those whom they do not know!

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

Happiness comes the way the wind blows.