When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.