The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.