People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.