A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.