Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
The poor are the blacks of Europe.