Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

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

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.