Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.