Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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.
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.