It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
Intelligent women always marry fools.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end .
One thing above all gives charm to men’s thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.