The Thing Is To Dazzle

From That Moment Our Love Became Sad, And Sadness Is A Disease Which Gives The Death-blow To Affection.

You Will Be Amused When You See That I Have More Than Once Deceived Without The Slightest Qualm Of Conscience, Both Knaves And Fools.

One Who Makes No Mistakes Makes Nothing

The Philosopher Is A Person Who Refuses No Pleasures Which Do Not Produce Greater Sorrows, And Who Knows How To Create New Ones.

The Reader Of These Memoirs Will Discover That I Never Had Any Fixed Aim Before My Eyes, And That My System, If It Can Be Called A System, Has Been To Glide Away Unconcernedly On The Stream Of Life, Trusting To The Wind Wherever It Led.