All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

He who leaves the game wins it.

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.