Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

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

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.