Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?