To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

A witty saying proves nothing.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

The superfluous is very necessary.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge