The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.