I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.