Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Be my brother or I will kill you.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.