The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
To be in love is to surpass one's self.
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.