“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.”

“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ”

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

“Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.”

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

“Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.”

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”