All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

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

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

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.