Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.