The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.