History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.