Change, change,--we all covet change.
In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
The poor are the blacks of Europe.
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.