Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.