It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.