I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.