A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.