"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."

"Smile! You're on candid camera."

"How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?"

"If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves."

"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."

"Immortality -- a fate worse than death."

"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."

"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."

"I could have gone on flying through space forever."

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it."

"He conquered with his weapons, but was conquered by his vices."