Self-pity Comes So Naturally To All Of

What Men Call Friendship Is Only Social Intercourse, An Exchange Of Favours And Good Offices; It Comes Down To A Commercial Dealing In Which Self-esteem Always Expects To Profit.

Medicine Is A Very Old Joke, But It Still Goes On.

The Minds Of Different Generations Are As Impenetrable One By The Other As Are The Monads Of Leibniz.

It Is Often Said That In Prosperity We Have Many Friends, But That We Are Usually Neglected When Things Go Badly. I Disagree. Not Only Do Malicious People Flock About Us In Order To Witness Our Ruin, But Other Unfortunates As Well, Who Have Been Kept Away By Our Happiness, And Now Feel Close To Us On Account Of Our Troubles.

Woman's Great Strength Lies In Being Late Or Absent. Presence Immediately Reveals The Weak Points Of Our Beloved; When She Is Absent She Become One Of The Sylph-like Figures Of Our Adolescence Whom We Endowed With Perfection.