Intelligent People Make Many Mistakes Because They

Pleasure Can Be Supported By An Illusion; But Happiness Rests Upon Truth.

It Must Be Admitted That There Are Some Parts Of The Soul Which We Must Entirely Paralyse Before We Can Live Happily In This World.

Love Is The Exchange Of Two Fantasies And The Contact Of Two Skins.

I Only Study The Things I Like; I Apply My Mind Only To Matters That Interest Me. They'll Be Useful-or Useless-to Me Or To Others In Due Course, I'll Be Given-or Not Given-the Opportunity Of Benefiting From What I've Learned. In Any Case, I'll Have Enjoyed The Inestimable Advantage Of Doing Things I Like Doing And Following My Own Inclinations.

When A Man And A Woman Have An Overwhelming Passion For Each Other, It Seems To Me, In Spite Of Such Obstacles Dividing Them As Parents Or Husband, That They Belong To Each Other In The Name Of Nature, And Are Lovers By Divine Right, In Spite Of Human Convention Or The Laws.