A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

I praise loudly and I blame softly.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

bad news travels faster than good.