There is a melancholy that stems from greatness
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.