Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.