To be popular I must be mediocre.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.