Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.