Schopenhauer says:

Il vaut mieux laisser les hommes pour ce qu'ils sont, que les prendre pour se qu'ils me sont pas. (Better to accept men for what they are, then to take them to be what they are not.)

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Only the make intellect, clouded by the sexual impulse, could call the under sized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged sex the fair sex.

To marry means to do everything possible to become an object of disgust to each other.

Our greated pleasure consists in being admired; but the admirers, even if there is every cause, are not very keen to express their admiration. And so the happiest man is who has managed sincerely to admire himself, no matter how.