There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

We forgive just so long as we love.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

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.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.