Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.

Europeans are quarrelsome.

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

I've never not been famous.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.