 Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us. |
| Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. |
| There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. |
| The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. |
| Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water? |
| The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. |
| Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more. |
| Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. |
| Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. |
| The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. |
| Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. |
| Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all. |
| If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. |
| It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world. |
| Conviction is the conscience of the mind. |
