The only proper intoxication is conversation.
An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.
To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.