Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.