Chance is a nickname for Providence.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.