But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.
Talent is nothing but long patience.
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.