“The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.”

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you’re not a small, you’re not a large.

Only love makes fruitful the soul.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be