The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

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

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.