Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.