Slander is the balm of malignity.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

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

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

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

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

The contact of two epidermises.