“A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.”

“A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.”

“When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it.”

“An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.”

“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”

“MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you”

“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?”