If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.