Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.