It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

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.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.