Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

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

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

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

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.