“unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.”

“I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.”

“My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”

“I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish.”

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”

“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.”

“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.”