There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.