We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
The impotence of God is infinite.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.