We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority