1. “Intelligent people make many mistake because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.”
2. “Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.”
3. ” A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
4. “Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.”
5. “There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.”
6. “Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”
7. “Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much defect of giving too much importance to life and death.”
8. “Men of reason have endured; men of passion have lived.”
9. “Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.”
10. “Pleasure can be supported by an illusion, but happiness rests upon truth.”
11. “To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.”
12. “Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.”
13. “There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
14. “It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.”
15. “Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.”
